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Minnesota Mom Hit With $1.5 Million Fine for Illegaly Downloading 24 SongsDaniel Kreps Yahoo! Music 11/05/2010 | Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital AgeTRIP GABRIEL The New York Times 08/02/2010 |
 What's the value of a song? Jammie Thomas-Rasset has spent the last few years in court debating that question. The Minnesota mother of four is being penalized for illegally downloading and sharing 24 songs on the peer-to-peer file-sharing network Kazaa in 2006, but how much she owes the record labels has been in question. |  At Rhode Island College, a freshman copied and pasted from a Web site’s frequently asked questions page about homelessness — and did not think he needed to credit a source in his assignment because the page did not include author information. |
Adding Fees and Fences on Media SitesRICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and TIM ARANGO The New York Times 12/28/2009 | Court Shelves Encyclopaedia Britannica Patent Infringement Case Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione 08/07/2009 |
 Over more than a decade, consumers became accustomed to the sweet, steady flow of free news, pictures, videos and music on the Internet. Paying was for suckers and old fogeys. Content, like wild horses, wanted to be free. |  Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the United States, announced that a court has granted a motion for summary judgment resolving a patent infringement case brought by Encyclopaedia Britannica (EB). The court ruled in favor of Brinks clients, Alpine Electronics of America, Inc. and Alpine Electronics, Inc., finding that EB's patents at issue are invalid. Alpine Electronics of America and Alpine Electronics are the manufacturers of high performance mobile electronics, including mobile navigational products. |
Copyright Challenge for Sites That ExcerptBRIAN STELTER New York Times 03/02/2009 | |
 When the popular New York business blog Silicon Alley Insider quoted a quarter of Peggy Noonan’s Wall Street Journal column in mid-February, the editor added a caveat at the end: “We thank Dow Jones in advance for allowing us to bring it to you.” | |
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